A black man visiting his mother in Atlanta was wrongfully arrested and held for six days after facial recognition technology wrongly identified him as a fraudster and thief in Louisiana, according to the latest lawsuit aimed at the controversial technology.
Randal Quran Reid, 29, was visiting his mother on Thanksgiving last year when DeKalb County police pulled him over, claiming he had two warrants for his arrest for crimes in Jefferson and East Baton Rouge parishes, according to a lawsuit filed in Atlanta federal court in September.
“I’m confused and I’m angry because I don’t know what’s going on,” Quran told the AP, as he tried to explain to officials that he had never been to Louisiana.
Despite his appeal, Reid was arrested and held for nearly a week as police prepared him for extradition to the Pelican State.
Randal Quran Reid was arrested during a Thanksgiving visit to his mother’s home after an arrest warrant was filed solely on the merits of facial recognition technology, the lawsuit alleges. AP
Unbeknownst to him at the time, Reid was arrested after Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office Detective Andrew Bartholomew determined that he was the prime suspect in a June 2022 New Orleans robbery, when a stolen credit card was used to purchase two purses valued at more than $8,000 each.
Bartholomew allegedly identified Reid solely through the use of facial recognition technology that matched the perp’s surveillance video to Reid’s driver’s license, the lawsuit said.
“Bartholomew did not conduct a basic search into Mr. Reid, which would have revealed that Mr. Reid was in Georgia when the theft occurred,” the suit reads.
Reid was locked up for six days awaiting extradition to Louisiana, a state he says he has never been to and is unlikely to have committed a crime in. AP
Fortunately for Reid, his family and lawyers were able to confirm his identity, presenting evidence that the real suspect in the robbery was much heavier than Reid and had no moles.
Reid has accused Bartholomew of false arrest, malicious prosecution and negligence, with Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto also accused of failing to enforce adequate regulations regarding the use of facial recognition technology.
The sheriff’s office was warned that it could not issue an arrest warrant based solely on facial recognition technology, according to internal emails following Reid’s arrest highlighted in the lawsuit.
The sheriff’s office declined to comment on the case, saying it does not discuss pending litigation.
Porcha Woodruff, of Detroit, was arrested after facial recognition technology was used to select her from a suspect list for a carjacking even though she was eight months pregnant. AP
Almost a year after the ordeal, Reid said the arrest still haunts him as he thinks about what could have happened if his family didn’t act in time.
“There’s always a risk when you go to jail, but I felt more in danger when I was arrested because I knew it was for something I didn’t do,” Reid told ABC News. “I lost faith in the justice system to know that you can be locked up for something you never did.”
Reid’s case is not an isolated incident, as he is just one of at least five black plaintiffs who have filed suit against authorities in recent years over the use of facial recognition technology, which has been accused of misidentifying people of color at far higher rates. higher. than their white counterparts.
In August, Porcha Woodruff, a mother of three, filed a lawsuit against Detroit police when they arrested her for a robbery and carjacking while she was eight months pregnant.
Woodruff eventually learned he was “implicated as a suspect” from a photo lineup shown to the victim following an “unreliable facial recognition match,” according to court documents filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
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